Time Travel

Tired of airplanes, Barry and I tried time travel instead. Above, the tastiest water comes from aqueducts in Roman times. Below, Barry speeding through space and time.

We went to watch the gladiators fight in the coliseum.

And we partook in more civilized activities in the centre court building.

Cars used to be horses, which are much narrower, hence smaller streets like these.

Churches were big and fancy, albeit not well heated in the past.

At first we we remained in AD years.

But then we travelled further, into caveman times.

Because nothing says I care about my home like decorating in stalactites.

We may have to bring this idea back to the future too.

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Views and Engrish Animals

The view of the week is from Marina Bay Sands by night.

The cuisine of the week is Indonesian, eaten with our friend Willy from Ottawa.

There is a competition for yellow animal of the week. Choice 1 is the rare golden koala.

Choice 2 is the butter lion. The lion seems to have a better sense of humour, but the koala is a better poser for cookie images.

The fruit of the week is the sock-flavoured papaya.

Butter lion and I imagine that we're super, and that the papayas are delicious.

The vegetable of the week can also shine up your car.

The Black Sesame powder claims to have no wax. They concern what we care. They even care what we haven't aware, which I think is really taken the sesame to the next level.

Finally, the sauce of the week provides a lot of purpose, and I imagine it's maybe even better than ok.

So remember, A-Nung.

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Botany. Still Evil.

The Singapore Botanic Garden is very pretty, but if you look closely, you can see the orchids are crying. Here, Barry notices the cause.

It's the evil botanicals!

Obviously these plants have very sinister intents.

The above are obviously toxic, and the nodules below are sticky, to trap innocent bunnies I suppose.

The above strangles, the below ensnares.

In addition to the evil, this time I noticed its effects. You can see trauma in the leaf below.

Obssessive-compulsive behaviour in the fern.

A dragonfly taking shelter on a rainbow plant.

Stunted growth. It's all very sad, really.

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Hong Kong Summits, Water, Shorts, and Fried Cheese

This is a story about different styles of loud shorts, but mostly about water.

The water journey started in Macau, at the House of Dancing Water show. You know when you buy a fake Louise V purse, and the lining is Burberry plaid? Well if you take Cirque du Soleil O, speed it up, add some bling, and throw in jumping motorbikes, you're in Macau.

Strangely, no choreographed dancing was allowed on the escalators outside the show, especially while wearing crocs. Crocs just make you even less graceful.

Whoops, I forgot this picture last week to remind you that Macau's casino's are just like Vegas. Macau is like Portugal, and Macau is like Vegas, but Portugal is nothing like Vegas. Deep, right?

Anyway, the next day we circumnavigated Hong Kong. I have just dictionary confirmed that this is not entirely true, but that's how it seemed. Where are you headed, guys?

And how hot is it, Dave? (Editor's note: I felt the same level of brain-busting overheat, but luckily a lower level of photography. Neither Dave nor I can now remember much of our respective childhoods).

This is how much fluid we consumed afterwards. Each. Delicious ketchup noodles and extensive popsicles not shown.

I think that we burned off the calories from the day before, even given the fried cheese!

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Barry can't count Macau as a Country

How do you enter into the glamour of the 1970s? It is available in the Grand Lisboa Macau.

To get to Macau, just take the Fiber to the Home bus.

We went with our friends of the suprising height differences.

Inside the casinos there is fake sky just like in Vegas. This is how you know that you can't escape.

This picture was taken for my friend Frank to show that Macau is much like Portugal.
Anyway, to get away from the Casinos, we went to the lighthouse.

Unfortunately the orange people followed us there, and we couldn't get away from them!

So instead, we followed the instructions on the workout structures. 

In fact we followed all of the instructions, including trickier ones such as no throwing fish, and no stepping on iguanas.

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